This site is about the journey of me and my husband to become debt free. I'll tell you what we've tried and what works for us to hopefully help you on your debt freedom journey and have some fun along the way.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Wheeling and Dealing at CVS again

I'm on a good bit of strong medicine and so I need to take an acid reducer each day to protect my stomach from these medicines. I normally get either Prilosec, Prevacid or the store brand depending on which one I can cheaper or get a better deal on.

Well, I noticed last week that CVS had their store brand acid reducer as part of a deal that if you spend $30 on certain items, you would get a $10 CVS gift card free. I checked the coupons that I had for the name brand medicines and price checked at Publix (I had double coupons there) but the CVS deal was still the better deal hands down. Now, I noticed when I was reading the ad that there was a limit of 5 free gift cards per person per week. I thought to myself, who would spend $150.00 on something in one week? Well apparently this chick, that's who. The more I thought about it and did the math, I would be saving a lot of money with this deal and have enough acid reducers to last me about 9 months. I mean, I have to take them everyday so it's not like they won't get used.

So, in the end I came home with 6 of the 42 count boxes and 2 of the 14 count boxes which is enough to last me a little over 9 months and actually had me spending only about half per month what I had been spending for it with coupons.

AND the best part, I also came home with $50 in CVS gift cards that I can use on anything. I plan on using them to earn Extra Care Bucks and see how long I can go without spending any of my money at CVS.